Wanyan Pingtao looked at the other party's cuirassier who had stopped, and couldn't help but secretly wipe a cold sweat.

If this cuirassier rushes out desperately and storms his cavalry formation, then he will be really in danger today.

When the cavalry faces the charge of the cavalry, in addition to fleeing, it can only charge back, and staying in place is looking for death.

However, just now, between Wanyan Pingtao's cavalry formation and the cuirassiers, there was still the cavalry that had just withdrawn from the infantry array, and if Wanyan Pingtao launched a counter-charge, he would first step on his own people! This is undoubtedly a very demoralizing thing.

Second, even if he stubbornly ignores his own people and launches a counter-charge, it is equivalent to playing all the hole cards in his hand, and there are no more reserves.

On the other hand, on Yang Miaozhen's side, there is another division of assault cavalry and one division of light cavalry, and one division of horse infantry did not move?

Just now, the remaining division of the assault cavalry has begun to move, once the main cavalry of Yan Pingtao and Chen Jun's cuirassier division are entangled, they have no reserves, after the new division of the assault cavalry of Yang Miaozhen arrives on the battlefield, there is no second possibility except for defeat.

Therefore, once the cuirassiers rushed out just now, Wanyan Pingtao had almost no good way except to escape.

Fortunately, at the critical time, the commander of the cuirassier division was instigated and did not chase it out, missing this good opportunity.

Seizing this opportunity, Wan Yan Pingtao ordered his subordinates to blow the horn of the troops, and slowly retreated in the direction of the fortress.

Before retreating, Wan Yan Pingtao glanced at the battlefield where his heavy cavalry and Chen Juntu's cavalry were entangled from a distance, and looked at the corpses of his own cavalry all over the ground, and his heart couldn't help but drip blood.

The reason why Wanyan Pingtao attacked so resolutely with cavalry this time was to achieve a good start victory, with the determination and confidence to strengthen domestic resistance, because Wanyan Pingtao knew that in the face of the strong East China Sea State, the only hope of the North Jin State was to use a protracted resistance to wear down the patience of the East China Sea.

However, Wanyan Pingtao's long-planned attack not only did not achieve the expected results, but wasted the most elite heavy cavalry team in his hands in vain.

In the end, although Wanyan Pingtao retreated with most of the light cavalry to the protection of the fortress artillery fire, his most elite heavy cavalry was completely disabled, and less than half of the people retreated.

Looking at Wanyan Pingtao, who had retreated, Yang Miaozhen, who had won the victory, did not show the slightest smile, her brows were furrowed, and her face was gloomy.

After staring at the back of Yan Pingtao's army and being silent for a long time, Yang Miaozhen finally ordered the withdrawal of the army.

After returning to the camp in this town, Yang Miaozhen did not reprimand the cuirassier division commander who delayed the fighter, after all, he did not make a mistake by delaying the fighter, but a problem of ability.

The reason why he put a general who is not very capable enough in such a position is that Yang Miaozhen himself has to pay a lot of responsibility.

It is precisely because he and other cavalry generals are not optimistic about the new branch of cuirassiers, that the position of division commander will be thrown to an old cavalry general with insufficient ability.

After this war, Yang Miaozhen had completely agreed with Chen Xian's idea of replacing the assault cavalry with cuirassiers.

It can be seen from today's war that when the cuirassiers face the lancers, even if the opponent is wearing cuirass, they should not have much disadvantage, but show great advantages after the two sides fall into a stall and fall into a melee.

Just like Chen Xian said, cuirassiers are easier to train and cost less than lancers, so on the whole, cuirassiers are better assault cavalry than lancers.

In addition, this war also made Yang Miaozhen agree with Chen Xian's idea of removing the armor from the light cavalry and infantry, which really didn't seem to be of much use.

In addition, what worries Yang Miaozhen even more is that Wanyan Pingtao's men are equipped with spears and flintlock pistols, but they do not have the ability shown by the light cavalry wearing armor.

From Yang Miaozhen's eyes, it is not difficult to see that the main light cavalry of the Chen army, the hunting cavalry, seems to have a great disadvantage in front of this new type of light cavalry equipped with spears and capable of rushing and fighting.

Wanyan Pingtao's light cavalry completely abandoned the light cavalry of the armor, and the soldiers were lighter, faster, and more agile than the chasers of the Chen army, which were equipped with light armor.

Chen's chasseurs paid more attention to linear array and platoon gun shooting training, and they did not pay much attention to assault and charge training.

Yang Miaozhen could fully imagine that when their chasers encountered the light cavalry of the Northern Jin Kingdom alone, they would be scattered and routed by the other party.

The Chasseurs were the nemesis of the nomadic archers, but they were not very good at fighting shock cavalry.

In fact, in later European theaters, the Russian Cossack cavalry also gave Napoleon a headache and was very envious.

After collecting the troops and returning to the camp, Yang Miaozhen immediately wrote a letter to Chen Xian, writing in detail the battles on the battlefield during the day.

In the letter, she praised the combat capabilities of the cuirassiers, agreed with Chen Xian's idea of replacing the cavalry with cuirassiers, and expressed his approval of Chen Xian's removal of the armor from the infantry and light cavalry.

She also suggested training a team of light cavalry that could charge and fight like the Northern Jin Kingdom.

Finally, Yang Miaozhen described the fortress of the Northern Jin Kingdom to Chen Xian, and he asked Chen Xian to send him more infantry and artillery.

Sent the messenger, Yang Miaozhen did not sit and wait, the letter was sent to Chen Xian, and then the letter was replied, it took more than a month, Yang Miaozhen naturally could not sit on more than 100,000 troops, so he sat and waited here.

Next, Yang Miaozhen first tried to bypass the bastion belt from the side, but he quickly gave up.

It is easy for a large army to bypass the fortress belt, but it is almost impossible to establish a supply line around the fortress belt, which is equivalent to handing one's lifeblood to the enemy's sabre.

After giving up the idea of bypassing the fortress belt, Yang Miaozhen mobilized an engineering team and a militia from the rear to the front line, and she tried the stupid method of building an earthen wall around the perimeter of the fortress.

Facts have proved that the stupid method is sometimes the best way, the fortress itself is not large, the garrison is not much, in addition to its own strength, there are not many forces that can attack, once it is surrounded by people on the periphery of the earthen wall, even if the food is sufficient, there is little strategic and tactical effect left in itself.

When Yang Miaozhen first started to repair the earthen wall, Wanyan Pingtao repeatedly sent troops to destroy the earthen wall, and the two sides went back and forth around the newly built earthen wall, all kinds of sneak attacks, fan sneak attacks, traps, and anti-traps.

I have to say that Yan Pingtao is indeed a very good military general, but Yang Miaozhen is not good at this kind of game of wit.

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